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This project will bring a group of fifteen immigrant teens together with teachers and New York City Writing Project teacher-consultants to create an online community called International Community Voices. The online space will be housed on YouthVoices.net and will be used to share students’ interest-driven projects aimed at building their English Language capacity and academic skills. In the two phases of the project, educators will develop tasks for students to complete that combine academic and interest-driven learning, and host an after-school program for 15 students of varying ages and levels of literacy to create multimedia projects, share them, and earn badges. Students will interact collaboratively with leaders and each other as peers and mentors while having the time to strengthen language development and academic learning while engaging in meaningful play.

Thursday, May 28, 2015 - Final Party with Hypothes.is

Paul Allison and Renée Ehle, facilitators

4:00 - 4:20 Reconnecting with talk and listening: One thing that you are concerned about in the world?

4:20 - 5:00 Introduction to Do Now and Hypothe.sis - Let's Read and Annotate Together

To respond to a Do Now, we can:

Step One. Annotate this week's (or another week's) Do Now together using Hypothes.is.

4:20 - 4:40 Finding a post to comment on: Click on “Channels.” Find “Arts and Entertainment” and read the paragraph describing this channel. Click on “Arts and Entertainment.” Under “Recent Posts in Arts and Entertainment” click at the bottom on “Read all posts.” Find a post that looks interesting to you and read it. You may also want to read comments that others have written about this post.

5:00 - 5:20 What did you find on Youth Voices? What questions do you have?

5:20 - 5:50 Post a discussion and a comment on Youth Voices in the Teachers Teaching Teachers channel: First draft of how you plan to use YV in club or class (reflective but moving towards concrete plan)